Professor Emeritus of Journalism and formerly Knight Chair in Digital Media Strategy, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. Formerly senior vice president/strategy and development and director of interactive media, Chicago Tribune.
In which we talk with one great newsman on the radio, talk to the son of another great newsman in a podcast, and take time to look optimistically forward by leveraging what I know of the past.
In which I welcome Medill's class of 2016 to Northwestern on behalf of the faculty, and of the future. References to the pasture are incidental and illustrative.